Re: [Tuxpaint-users] Thumbnails of "Starter" Image

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 03:22:21PM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> It seems the issue here is that the image was actually a black blob on
> a white background.  The white, along with most of the black, was made
> transparent using an 'alpha' channel.  (The transparency is necessary in
> Tux Paint starter images, at the moment.)
> 
> What's happening is the code in Tux Paint that generates the thumbnail
> loses the 'alpha' aspect of the image, and simply thumbnails what's left.

Well, two hours later, I finally got the right combination of SDL calls and
other code in there to get it working right. :^)

  http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/tuxpaint/.message/82f6

Thanks again for pointing this out to me.  In the past, I've had a lot of
control over the PNGs that Tux Paint tries to load (either because they
were stuff I shipped (stamps, starters, etc.), or because Tux Paint actually
saved them in the first place).  Obviously, this meant some corner cases
weren't being tested thoroughly enough. ;^)


-bill!